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...effect was to prevent operation of birth-control clinics: the last one in Connecticut was shut down in 1939 after two doctors and a nurse were prosecuted under the 1879 law-Cannon also argued that in virtually every session of the state legislature since 1923, bills to amend or repeal the 1879 law have been introduced and all have failed. Therefore, contended Cannon, the law "represents the will of the people." That was a way of saying that Connecticut politicians of whatever creed cringe before the presumed power of the Roman Catholic Church, which counts 1.138,600 adherents...
...under advisement. Whether it would ever issue a ruling was not certain. Frankfurter had laid the basis for an opinion that the case was hypothetical, since nobody had been punished under the law. But the unenforceable law would remain on the books unless the court acted. There are two repeal bills in the Connecticut legislature, but neither seems to have a chance of passage...
...Kennedy's statement to the effect that the size of the job done by a civil servant will be more important than the size of his staff, budget and office is a direct threat to all loyal bureaucrats. Arise one and all and prevent this wanton attempt to repeal Parkinson...
...late U.S. District Court Judge William Clark, who anticipated Repeal by three years in a 1930 decision which held that the 18th Amendment was invalid because it flouted the will of the people. Appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Appeals Court in West Germany after the Nürnberg trials, Clark kept up a running feud with U.S. High Commissioner James Conant, in 1953 refused to leave the bench when notified of his dismissal, was finally dislodged when the State Department yanked his diplomatic passport. Judge Clark died...
...with authority. Unfortunately, he lacks all control over his plot, and he makes most of his points by bending a reader's ear till it aches. After a flurry of melodrama, Vangel ends up with a whole new set of values. Here they are: "I would like to repeal suffrage for women. I would like to end all war. I would like to pull down all prejudices and ignorance and persuade men to live a rational life...